Project management integrated, Melbourne

Five-day course

Projects are essentially about managing change – and because change is an increasingly significant fact of business life – project management is an essential key skill in today’s working environment. Many people are involved in project work, either directly or in a supporting role, and yet they have never received formal training in the basic techniques that can make the difference between a successful project and an expensive failure.

For exactly the same reason, the introduction of computer-based project management tools can lead to disappointing results. Training someone to simply operate a computerised project-planning tool does not make him or her a project manager. Microsoft Project is a powerful scheduling tool but requires training to use efficiently.

Course Objectives

The successful project manager can effectively co-ordinate every area of a project so that it comes together in the end. Meeting all required outcomes demands an exceptional level of expertise, objectivity and a combination of both technical and management skills.

Key skills in project management is the first step in bridging this skills gap. For many people it is all the training they will need to enable them to operate more effectively in a project environment and to make more effective use of their planning software.

Group training

This course offers a complete learning and hands-on experience in both methodology principles and computer-based software.

The course is designed for a team of people running projects or about to embark on a project. It requires consultation between the trainers and the client to ensure the appropriate training is delivered. This would be an ongoing process throughout the course delivery. A project or part of the project would be identified and developed in the course.

Course Modules

Course modules

A combination of learning techniques offering a complete learning and hands-on experience in both methodology principles and computer-based software. This course is designed to assist project managers and project teams manage new projects. The course focuses on thinking, developing and applying techniques for management activities required over the project life cycle, ensuring correct project initiation, scope management, time cost and resource planning, human resources and communications management along with disciplined monitoring control and reporting methods.

Course delivery

Delivery can be flexible – half days, full days, three days spread over a couple of weeks or a complete integrated five-day package delivered to fit your work schedule. We will work with the project manager to develop the schedule and deliver appropriate training. The course duration and delivery are determined by the client’s requirements. We also offer one – on – one training and online sessions for those wishing to experience a more personalised training experience.

At Project Advantage, we run our Melbourne project management short courses for groups of a maximum of 12 participants at customer designated locations offering substantially discounted rates compared to the costs for staff attendance at public courses. These workshops are delivered to business groups or units within organisation as well as to individuals.

Integration

The methodology, theory and business planning components support and complement the computer-based software application component.This combination of learning techniques offers a complete learning and hands-on experience in both principles.

Who will benefit from attending this course?

The primary audience for the course is people who are newly embarking on a project management career, with no prior training in the professional skills required for successful project management.

However, senior managers wishing to introduce a project-based approach to their own, or their staff’s work, will also find the course highly beneficial, as will people who have learned their project skills “on the job” and have never had any formal training.

Further groups of people with much to gain from the course are the “customers” or project sponsors. This course will give them the vocabulary and understanding to enable them to communicate more effectively with the project team.

Course benefits

Cost effective

Eliminates the need to construct the plan during work time, we will produce it in class

Tailored to your particular requirements

Training is also tailored to your needs. There is no need to learn parts of the application you will not use

Greater retention when working on real-life examples drawn from your own work-based activities and tasks

Develop your schedule during training

On the completion of the course, your schedule is built

Ongoing relationship and support

Opportunity to undertake follow-up training on an as-needs basis

Taking a flexible approach, we are able to offer this service on a day-rate basis. This means the training service can be offered in modules and delivered in a sequential fashion to gain the best results.[/tabcontent]Course Delivery